Today, a free download!
This year marks the start of what will hopefully be an annual tradition for Inkprint Press, which is the Reader’s Guide. It’s a compilation of all the Inkprint Press titles (including mine, obviously) with blurbs, buy links and the first TWO chapters/scenes. This is double the length that we post for free on our websites, and it’s the ONLY place you can access this much of each story for free 🙂
And it has EVERYTHING, including ALL the Inklets, and it has lists at the start of titles by genre and titles by series in reading order, so it’s an excellent pocket reference. It also has a full bibliography at the end with ISBNs: you can walk (in theory) into any library or bookstore and as long as you have the ISBN (and the book is still in print), they can order the book in for you.
(And, in fact, we would LOVE IT if you asked your local libraries to order in our books!! We get paid when libraries buy books, sometimes every time a reader checks the book out, and you get to read the book FOR FREEEEEEE, winning all round.)
Yes, the Guide is the 2020 Guide because it’s current as of Jan 1 this year, with all the 2020 titles in it.
In an ideal world, we’d also include our 2021 titles in there as a preview, but let’s be honest, we’re not that organised. Even though we go into each year with a rough idea of what we’re planning to publish that year, we also have a lot of flexibility because it’s basically just two of us, so if Life Happens or a book just isn’t working, or it’s taking longer to complete than we expected, we’ll often adjust midstream.
For example, I was planning to release a novelette in April that I drafted back in uni for my archeology unit. It just wasn’t gelling in edits, however, so I ditched it for a maybe-later date and wrote something completely new instead :’D
So the flexibility for me is a complete win, but it does mean that we can’t accurately indicate what we’re going to publish in any given year. Hence, the current Reader’s Guide is the 2020 edition!
The plan is to update it at the end of every year, so on Jan 1 next year you’ll get the 2021 Guide, updated to include anything and everything we published in 2021 🙂
Right. Enough preamble. Here she is:
(eBook only because the print would be over 600 pages even at hardcover size ;))